How "phubbing" becomes the norm: The antecedents and consequences of snubbing via smartphone

By Varoth Chotpitayasunondh, Karen McKenzie. Computers in Human Behavior, 2016

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Smartphones allow people to connect with others from almost anywhere at any time. However, there is growing concern that smartphones may actually sometimes detract, rather than complement, social interactions. The term "phubbing" represents the act of snubbing someone in a social setting by concentrating on one's phone instead of talking to the person directly. The current study was designed to examine some of the psychological antecedents and consequences of phubbing behavior. We examined the contributing roles of Internet addiction, fear of missing out, self-control, and smartphone addiction, and how the frequency of phubbing behavior and of being phubbed may both lead to the perception that phubbing is normative. The results revealed that Internet addiction, fear of missing out, and self-control predicted smartphone addiction, which in turn predicted the extent to which people phub. This path also predicted the extent to which people feel that phubbing is normative, both via (a) the extent to which people are phubbed themselves, and (b) independently. Further, gender moderated the relationship between the extent to which people are phubbed and their perception that phubbing is normative. The present findings suggest that phubbing is an important factor in modern communication that warrants further investigation. Internet addiction, FoMOs, and self-control predict smartphone addiction.Smartphone addiction predicts phubbing behavior and phubbee experiences.Phubbing and phubbee experiences predict the perceived normativity of phubbing.Gender moderates the relationship between phubbee experiences and perceived norms.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Fear of Missing Out, online social networking and mobile phone addiction: A latent profile approach (2017, neutral): “The terms used include phubbing (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2016; Karadağ et al., 2015), technostress (Brooks, 2015; Tarafdar, Pullins, & Ragu-Nathan, 2015), nomophobia (Bragazzi & del Puente, 2014; King et al., 2013), and Fear of missing out (FoMO) (Przybylski, Murayama, DeHaan, & Gladwell,…”
“Mom, dad, look at me”: The development of the Parental Phubbing Scale (2020, background): “According to Chotpitayasunondh and Douglas (2016), phubbing has become a sort of new social norm, which was rapidly established through reciprocity, a fundamental process of human interaction (Cialdini, 1993; Falk & Fischbacher, 2006).”
An Exploration of Problematic Smartphone Use among Chinese University Students: Associations with Academic Anxiety, Academic Procrastination, Self-Regulation and Subjective Wellbeing (2018, background): “2016) and the multi-national sample in (Chotpitayasunondh and Douglas 2016) because more participants scored over the suggested cut-off points for addiction on the SAS-SV (33 out of 50 for females and 31 out of 50 for males).”
Boss phubbing, trust, job satisfaction and employee performance (2020, background): “Others have also argued that phubbing behavior has become normalized - the cost of doing business in a technologydriven workplace where the boundaries between our private and professional lives have become increasingly blurred (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2016).”
The Roles of Personality Traits, AI Anxiety, and Demographic Factors in Attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence (2022, background): “Similarly, phubbing (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2016) has emerged, i.e., communication via smart-phones by people in the same room.”
Negative consequences from heavy social networking in adolescents: The mediating role of fear of missing out. (2017, background): “In a recent study, FOMO has been shown to be a predictor of smartphone addiction (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2016).”
Investigation of nomophobia and smartphone addiction predictors among adolescents in Turkey: Demographic variables and academic performance (2019, background): “In addition, smartphone addiction has been associated with anxiety and depression (Thomée et al., 2011; Beranuy et al., 2009; Cheever et al., 2014; Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2016).”
The effects of "phubbing" on social interaction (2018, background): “The most important determinant appears to be smartphone addiction (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2016; Karada g et al., 2015).”
Social media induced fear of missing out (FoMO) and phubbing: Behavioural, relational and psychological outcomes (2022, positive): “According to Chotpitayasunondh and Douglas (2016), phubbing has the potential to become a cyclical normative behaviour because it predicts the likely extent of being phubbed, which can lead the phubbed individual to experience negative emotions.”